How to get more votes on your Minecraft server

Minecraft server voting works like this: players vote for your server on server lists once a day, the votes rank you on those lists, and NuVotifier passes each vote to your server so a plugin can reward the player. To get more votes, make voting quick, make the reward worth a few seconds, and remind people at the right moment. Everything else on this page builds on those three.

Votes matter because on most lists, including ours, they decide the order servers appear in. On our list, servers are ranked by votes this month, online servers come first, ties go to whoever has more players online, and the count resets on the 1st of each month (UTC). A small server with a loyal group of daily voters can outrank a bigger server whose players never vote. The full rules are on How we rank, and our guide to server lists and vote sites explains how a vote travels from a website to your server.

Step one: rewards have to arrive in game

A vote with no reward is a favor. A vote that drops something useful in your inventory within seconds is a habit. That needs two pieces:

Vote rewards that follow the rules

Mojang's usage guidelines for servers are mostly about what you sell, and a free reward for voting isn't a purchase. They still shape what you can do around votes: you can't sell anything that gives a competitive advantage, and in-game currency must have no real-world value, can't be cashed out and can't move between servers. Read the official text; our guide to what servers can sell summarizes it. In practice that means never selling votes, vote keys or "vote multipliers", and keeping vote currency inside your server's economy.

Inside those lines, here's how common reward types compare:

A good default: a small, immediate reward for every vote, plus bigger rewards for consistency. VotingPlugin supports VoteStreak (rewards for voting several days in a row), Milestones (a one-time reward at a total vote count), cumulative rewards (per day or week) and TopVoter rewards for the top voters of the day, week or month.

Make voting take ten seconds

Every step between "I should vote" and "done" loses voters. Cut them:

1. Add a /vote command that prints clickable links to every list you're on. Most rewards plugins include one.
2. Pre-fill the username. On our list, /server/your-server/vote?username=Steve opens a vote form with the name already filled in. Build that link with the player's name so they only press the button. (Replace your-server with the name in your page's address.)
3. Keep the list count sensible. Three to five lists a day is a routine. Twelve is a chore, and players pick a few anyway.
4. Put the links in Discord as well, pinned in a #vote channel.

Reminders that don't annoy people

• Remind on join, once, only if they haven't voted today. VotingPlugin's VoteReminding does this. A reminder to someone who already voted is noise.
• Show progress, not nagging. A scoreboard or tab line with "Vote party: 34/50" (VotingPlugin has a PlaceholderAPI expansion) invites people to help.
• Use a Discord bot for daily reminders that players opt into. Our free API answers "did this username vote today?" at /api/v1/servers/your-server/voted?username=Steve, so a bot can skip people who already did.
• Thank voters publicly. A short broadcast when someone votes ("Steve voted and got a key, /vote") is a reminder that doesn't feel like one.

Vote parties: turn votes into an event

A vote party (VotingPlugin calls it VoteParty) rewards everyone on the server, or everyone who voted, when the server reaches a set number of votes. It works because it turns a private chore into a shared goal: players remind each other.

1. Set a goal you'll hit every day or two. A goal you miss for a week kills the idea.
2. Show the count everywhere: scoreboard, tab list, a hologram at spawn, a Discord channel.
3. Make the reward a moment. A countdown, a drop party at spawn, fireworks. Players should want to be online when it fires.
4. Adjust the goal as you grow, so it stays reachable but not automatic.

Playing the monthly reset

On our list, and on many others, vote counts reset at the start of each month. That shapes when your effort pays off most.

Timing your launch helps too. A new server that opens near the start of a month gets a full month of votes before the next reset. You can see where you stand on the vote reward servers list and on your game mode's page.

Why bought, traded or botted votes backfire

Some owners try to shortcut all of this. It doesn't work, and it can cost you the listing.

• Paying for votes. Services that sell votes send you rank without players. You end up higher on the list with an empty server, which is the worst first impression.
• Vote exchanges ("I vote for yours, you vote for mine"). The voters never join, and lists look for exactly this pattern.
• Alt accounts and VPN farms. Our list allows one vote per username per server per day (the day resets at midnight UTC), and up to three names per internet connection, with a bot check. Other lists have their own limits.
• Rewarding votes with real money or store credit. That blurs the line between voting and buying, and Mojang's rules on currency don't allow in-game money with real-world value. Read the official text before you try anything like it.

Votes are useful because they show real players like your server. Keep them real and the ranking sends you players who stay.

Bedrock and cracked servers: the username catch

Vote rewards go to a username, so make sure voters type the name your server sees.

• Bedrock players on a Java server through Geyser and Floodgate (see the crossplay setup guide) get a username prefix, a dot by default, so "Steve" becomes ".Steve". Tell Bedrock players to vote with the prefix, and pin that in your #vote channel.
• Cracked (offline-mode) servers don't verify usernames with Mojang, so a vote for any name rewards whoever logs in as that name. Most cracked servers use a login plugin; make sure rewards wait until the player has logged in.

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